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ArticleAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2020

Epigenetically modifying the Foxp3 locus for generation of stable antigen-specific Tregs as cellular therapeutics.

Shuqiu Chen, Lei Zhang, Yuanlin Ying, Yixuan Wang, Preston R Arnold, Guangchuan Wang, Junhui Li, R Mark Ghobrial, Wenhao Chen, Xiang Xiao and 1 more

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Article in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Honors the Immune Peacekeepers.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025
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  12. Genetically targeting the BATF family transcription factors BATF and BATF3 in the mouse abrogates effector T cell activities and enables long-term heart allograft survival.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2022
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  15. Regulatory T Cells-Related Genes Are under DNA Methylation Influence.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Shuqiu ChenImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
Lei ZhangImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
Yuanlin YingImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
Yixuan WangImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
Preston R ArnoldImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
Guangchuan WangImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
Junhui LiImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
R Mark GhobrialImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
Wenhao ChenImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0626-3739
Xiang XiaoImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
Xian C LiImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
Methodist Hospital · USCornell University · USZhongda Hospital Southeast University · CN

Funding

Control of Treg exhaustion by OX40R01AI106200 · NIAID · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI LI, XIAN CHANG · 2014 to 2025
$4.2M
T cell fate decisions and transplant outcomesR01AI129906 · NIAID · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI LI, XIAN CHANG · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI106200NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI129906
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) are potent immunoregulatory cells, prompting strong interests in manipulating them for therapeutic purposes. However, significant challenges remain, including their heterogeneity and functional instability. Here we focused on the inducible Tregs (iTregs) and studied whether the Foxp3 locus can be epigenetically edited ex vivo to produce stable therapeutic iTregs. Under iTreg-inducing condition where activated CD4

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Forkhead Transcription FactorsT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryAdoptive TransferCytokinesCytokinesForkhead Transcription Factorsbasic (laboratory) research/scienceimmune regulationimmunosuppression/immune modulationorgan transplant in generalT cell biology

Identifiers

PMID32167228
PMCPMC7483360
OpenAlexW3010721490

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